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Newly released Biden audio recordings include references to 'classified' material and struggles with memory

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Audio clips released by the right-wing Oversight Project on Monday of former-President Joe Biden's conversations with his biographer, Mark Lewis Zwonitzer, appears to support what former Special Counsel Robert Hur found in his 2024 report: Biden disclosed classified material, was forgetful and continued to possess classified material after leaving his post as vice president.

The Oversight Project, a branch of the conservative think-tank powerhouse Heritage Foundation, who had successfully sued the Justice Department to release them.

Hur ultimately decided not to bring a case against Biden in part because of his cooperation, which supported the notion that he had not intentionally broken the law but instead did so mistakenly.

President Biden's conversations for a book a decade ago that discussed his late son are private, and were provided to the Department of Justice on the express condition they stay that way.